Elvaston in the Domesday Book (1086)
The settlement of Elvaston is recorded in William I’s Domesday survey of 1086, entered under the hundred of Litchurch in Derbyshire.
Other Settlements in Litchurch
- Allestree
- Alvaston
- Ambaston
- Arleston
- Aston [-on-Trent]
- Barrow [-upon-Trent]
- Bearwardcote
- Boulton
- Burnaston
- Chellaston
- Cottons
- Dalbury
- Egginton
- Etwall
The Meaning of the Name
The name Elvaston is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word tūn, a farmstead or village. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a farmstead’.
Remarkably, the name has changed little since 1086, when the Domesday scribes wrote it as Elvaston.
Listed Buildings Near Elvaston
Historic England records 26 listed buildings within about a mile of Elvaston. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.
Grade I
- Church of St Bartholomew - 1.03 km
Grade II*
- Elvaston Castle - 0.98 km
Grade II
- Nursery Garden Walls and Attached Outbuildings at Elvaston Castle - 0.56 km
- Elvaston War Memorial - 0.57 km
- Gardens Farmhouse - 0.58 km
- The Clock House - 0.61 km
- Village Hall and Attached House - 0.68 km
- Boat House at Elvaston Castle to East End of the Lake - 0.79 km
- Thurlaston Grange - 0.79 km
- Pump House - 0.8 km
- Kiosk Cottage - 0.85 km
- Golden Gates and Attached Walls at Elvaston Castle - 0.9 km
- Moorish Temple and Attached Terrace in Elvaston Castle Gardens - 0.96 km
- Grotto on North Side of the Lake at Elvaston Castle - 0.97 km
- Milepost at Sk 414 315 South of Thulston Grange - 0.98 km
- Churchyard Walls and Attached Curtain Wall Between Coach House and Elvaston Castle - 1.01 km
- Coach House and Attached Buildings at Elvaston Castle - 1.04 km
- Information Centre and Shop at Elvaston Castle - 1.06 km
- Sheep Dip in Service Court at Elvaston Castle - 1.07 km
- Stables to West of Elvaston Castle Coach House - 1.09 km
- Farmbuildings to West of St Bartholomew’s Church at Elvaston Castle - 1.1 km
- Gate Piers and Attached Walls to West of Service Court at Elvaston Castle - 1.14 km
- Stable Block to East of the Kennels at Elvaston Castle - 1.14 km
- Springthorpe Cottage at Stableyard Entrance to Elvaston Castle - 1.14 km
…and 2 more listed structures in the area.
Scheduled Monuments Near Elvaston
Scheduled monuments are nationally important archaeological sites given legal protection. 1 lies within roughly a mile of Elvaston:
Elvaston Today
Today Elvaston lies within the administrative area of South Derbyshire, and the settlement recorded a population of 3,163 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.
Read more about modern Elvaston on Wikipedia .
Nearby Domesday Settlements
Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:
Heritage Around Elvaston
Photographs of churches, listed buildings and monuments in the vicinity, contributed by volunteers to the Geograph project and reused here under a Creative Commons licence.
© Jerry Evans · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Chris J Dixon · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
© Tom Wosik · Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Images © their respective photographers, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 and reused here with attribution. Photographs depict listed buildings, churches and monuments near this settlement and may show neighbouring villages.
Data derived from the Open Domesday project (opendomesday.org), based on the Domesday Book dataset compiled by Professor J.J.N. Palmer and team. The Domesday Book (1086) is in the public domain.
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